Rosebery

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

Rosebery, Fifth Earl of. Title of Archibald Philip Primrose. 1847-1929. British politician who served as prime minister (1894-1895) and supported imperialist policies.

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Examples

The King and Queen went down to lay the corner stone of the new King College in Rosebery, and going out of my office door with one of the European Ambassadors from a very important country, we stopped to look at the little pageant.

On March 20, 1878 Hannah married Philip Archibald Primrose, fifth Earl of Rosebery (1847 – 1929), to whom she had apparently been introduced when she was seventeen years old by Mrs. Disraeli at Newmarket.